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Zoom Talk, Lauren Tilton: “Computer Vision, Distant Viewing, and the Rise of MMLLMs”
This talk will introduce the concept of Distant Viewing, a theory and method for understanding and applying computer vision. Topics like how AI can support public/humanities research using examples from United States visual culture, and Multimodal Large Language Models (MMLLMs) and their role in distant viewing, will also be discussed in this zoom. Zoom Link: […]
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Deborah Dwork: “Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis”
Hill AuditoriumAmerican Quakers, Unitarians, secular people, and Jews traveled around the globe to offer relief and to rescue victims of Nazi Germany and its allies. Who were these women and men, who became both saints and liars as they sought to save lives? How did they manage these feats? Debórah Dwork’s new book opens a window […]
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Toby Hrynick: “‘He Sendeth Rain on the Just and the Unjust’: Social Response to Environmental Crisis on Medieval Romney Marsh”
Hill AuditoriumAnthropogenic climate change is unprecedented. Climate change is not. Societies have long struggled to cope with disrupted subsistence strategies, devastated populations, and accelerated social change. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Europe faced a series of disasters – flood, famine, and plague. This lecture looks at severely affected coastal wetlands, where local governments struggled to […]
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Will History Survive? Uncertainty During Political Upheaval
Alice Stewart Room (175) in Stevens HallJoin a discussion centered on the future of teaching and learning history.
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What We Know, What We Wish
McIntire Room in the Buchanan Alumni HouseReception at 4:30pm, Panel Discussion at 5:00pm
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Jacob Bruggeman: “Phone Phreaking: The Political Economy of Computer Hacking”
Bangor Room, Memorial UnionJacob Bruggeman's presentation will reconstruct the long-overlooked political history of American hackers. Moving from phone phreakers to digital coders, wearing both black and white hats, he traces the development of this influential group as they moved from the margins of the counterculture to the mainstream of American institutional power.
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Richard Tomczak: “Workers of War & Empire from New France to British America, 1688-1783″
Bangor Room, Memorial UnionRichard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard has several peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corvée labor in the American Revolution, published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism, by Johns Hopkins […]
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Undergraduate Research Celebration
Estabrooke Hall Ballroom 5753 Estabrooke Hall University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States +1 moreStudents from HTY 130, HTY 311, and HTY 498 will share their research! Please invite friends and family to join us. All are welcome.